.NET Matters: File Copy Progress, Custom Thread Pools

This month we look at tools for enhancing the LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework designers, Oren Eini's .NET development blog, Visual Studio tab customization, and more.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine December 2009

Exceptions in .NET are the fundamental mechanism by which errors and other exceptional conditions are communicated. This month's column provides information about how to aggregate exceptions to help manage a variety of scenarios in which multiple exceptions might result from one operation, including scenarios involving parallelism and concurrency.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine August 2009

If the responsibility for creating, managing, and executing routine backups is yours, these tools will make it easier. Also see how you can browse folders and files from inside Visual Studio.Scott MitchellMSDN Magazine May 2009

Custom field types provide a powerful way to define a reusable SharePoint column definitions.Ted PattisonMSDN Magazine May 2009

In this month's installment, Stephen Toub examines some techniques for enforcing dependencies in the running order of asynchronous operations and builds a DependencyManagement class to help.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine April 2009

This month we demonstrate how you can use the ThreadPool to support ordered execution without having to build custom thread pools yourself.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine February 2009

A Security Token Service, or STS, acts as a security gateway to authenticate callers and issue security tokens carrying claims that describe the caller. See how you can build a custom STS with the "Geneva" Framework.Michele Leroux BustamanteMSDN Magazine January 2009

Stephen Toub shows you how to add round-robin scheduling support on top of the ThreadPool for more granular processing control.Stephen ToubMSDN Magazine January 2009

Getting the performance you want in concurrent applications is not as straightforward as you might think. See how common threading issues can affect your application.Erika Fuentes and Eric EilebrechtMSDN Magazine December 2008

Understanding the ACLs that govern permissions and rights before an operation is allowed to proceed is critical to enhancing security.John R. MichenerMSDN Magazine November 2008